Gordon's family told The Washington Post that she appreciated the job for another reason: "When she was tapped for the ENIAC project, she was relieved, her daughters said, because she narrowly missed being assigned to work on the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb."

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<strong>Clara Barton</strong>, Founder Of The Red Cross

Clara Barton (born 1821, and died 1912) is best known for being the <a href="http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/clara-barton.html" target="_hplink">founder of the American Red Cross</a>.
She also played a major role in caring for soldiers during the Civil War, where she nursed wounded soldiers and helped to search for missing soldiers, <a href="http://www.redcross.org/about-us/history/clara-barton" target="_hplink">creating the Bureau of Records of Missing Men of the Armies of the United States</a>, according to the Red Cross.
Barton <a href="http://www.redcross.org/about-us/history/clara-barton" target="_hplink">founded the American Red Cross</a> -- initially called the American Association of the Red Cross -- in 1881, which has gone on to be a vital player in providing disaster relief around the country.
-- <em>ALC</em>